R/Exams

R Academia

Using R to improve the quality of online assessments

Author

Affiliation

Eugene Hickey

Technological University Dublin

Published

March 25, 2020

Citation

Hickey, 2020

I do a lot of work using online assessments, using the moodle learning platform. At the start of COVID lock-down, I figured I better up my game and so started extensively using the R/Exams package maintained by Achim Zeileis. I liked the results, and the way we could use R code giving some neat graphics, and random numbers so every student gets a different question. I’ve become a resource in the university, developing quiz questions for other lecturers, often in different disciplines, which is quite rewarding. Below are some screengrabs of questions from a chemical-engineering-esque course. The rnarkdown code for these is here.

This one is about material balances around a distillation column network.

This one is about analysis of a heat exchanger

And this one is about x-ray diffraction patterns

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    Text and figures are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0. Source code is available at https://github.com/eugene100hickey/fizzics, unless otherwise noted. The figures that have been reused from other sources don't fall under this license and can be recognized by a note in their caption: "Figure from ...".

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    For attribution, please cite this work as

    Hickey (2020, March 25). Euge: R/Exams. Retrieved from https://www.fizzics.ie/projects/2020-03-20-RExams/

    BibTeX citation

    @misc{hickey2020r/exams,
  author = {Hickey, Eugene},
  title = {Euge: R/Exams},
  url = {https://www.fizzics.ie/projects/2020-03-20-RExams/},
  year = {2020}
}